Drummer and noisemaker Utku Tavil is an inspiring and energetic player. He travels constantly, bringing his powerful and uplifting sounds to enthusiastic audiences worldwide. Utku is also the founder of Multiversal - a network, consisting of musicians, artists, performers and spaces around the globe. Multiversal has its roots in guerrilla actions which started during 2011 on the border of Friedrichshein and Kreuzberg neighborhoods of Berlin, which has evolved into a series of events traversing live music venues, art galleries, cellars, apartments and streets in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Greece , Turkey and beyond...

Hailing from the dynamic underground music scene of Zagreb, Cul-de-Sac was formed by Dragan Pajić aka "Pajo" and Damir Prica Kafka aka "Capri" in 1986. They published audio cassettes, made film soundtracks and played concerts in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Copenhagen and Berlin. The last performance of the original line-up took place in June 1991 on the balcony of the skyscraper on the main square in Zagreb, a few months later war broke out in former Yugoslavia. Relocating to Amsterdam from 1993 - 2000, Cul-de-Sac dived into Amsterdam's thriving music scene at the time playing at clubs and galleries all over the city and collaborating with Nikola VIncelj aka "Jinks", who created posters and covers for CDs and slide shows for the gigs. After their return to Zagreb in 2000, Pajo and the other original members teamed up with young musicians, creating an orchestra of up to 20 musicians who played at festivals Austria, Bosnia, Croatia Macedonia, Serbia including the legendary Showroom of Contemporary Sound in Zagreb. Founding member Pajo passed away on 23 February 2014. He was a pioneering improvising musician who left behind a powerful musical legacy, the spirit of which continues to this day with the Cul-de-Sac Accelerated Evolution Orchestra, returning to Berlin for the first time since their 90s appearance at Tacheles.

An unexpected, spontaneous, fresh and surprising trio playing for the first time together in Berlin.

LAWRENCE CASSERLEY

Lawrence Casserley is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians' sound, and he has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom he works frequently as a duo partner, in various larger groupings and in the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. CDs have been released by ECM, Konnex, Leo Records, Psi, Sargasso and Touch.

Originally from Turku, Finland - Harri Sjöström is a well known improvising musician on the Berlin scene and throughout the world. His incredibly wide ranging musical life has included creative encounters with leading musicians and composers such as Derek Bailey, John Cage, Bill Dixon, Vinko Globokar, George Russell and Cecil Taylor - the latter being an ongoing collaboration since their first Berlin meeting in 1990, they recently played together at the major retrospective for Taylor's work at the Whitney in New York.

La Tourette is as intense and emotional as a duo can be. On the surface some of the songs appear as fluorescent pop music pearls, but once seduced and pulled deeper into the world of La Tourette one finds even more to explore than just great songs: endless layers of influences and collisions with different musical styles and soundworlds - from experimental to african, hip hop to punk, and opera to soundscapes. Tonia Reeh is best known for her solo work as Monotekktoni and as the front singer for rock bands Masonne and Das zuckende Vakuum. In 2014 she started touring with Rudi Fischerlehner - who, as a drummer, is mostly associated with the likes of Olaf Rupp, Gorilla Mask and Fiium Shaarrk - with the idea of recreating some of the percussion effects used on her solo albums in live concerts. Over time the influence of Fischerlehner's sensitive and unorthodox drum and percussion styles melded the sound of the duo into something exciting and fresh - it could no longer be seen as "a solo thing with accompaniment". It was time to face the fact that this project had turned into a band, and the band was given the name "La Tourette".